Treating papillary fibroelastoma: what to choose, conservative or invasive therapy?
Tumors affecting the heart are rare and can be categorized as primary tumors originating from the cardiac tissues, or secondary tumors, metastatizing to the heart from other areas of the body.
Mária Luna Benavides Reyes +4 more
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Does preoperative education reduce anxiety in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery? [PDF]
The main purpose of the study was to find out whether preoperative education helps in reducing anxiety in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), by means of systematic review. About 28,000 CABG surgeries are done in UK every year, but
Isher, Sumeet K.
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Mean platelet volume-to-platelet count ratio after elective cardiac surgical procedures is superior in reflecting platelets metabolic hyperactivity compared to other routine morphological platelet indices: A preliminary report. [PDF]
Perek B +13 more
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Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgical Procedures in Children [PDF]
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Background: Invasive procedures involving the atria may promote the development of iatrogenic cardiac arrhythmias.Aim: To analyse the prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias following transcatheter or cardiosurgical closure of the secundum type atrial septal ...
Karwot, Blandyna +10 more
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Decision making in surgery is based on contemporary hard data describing outcomes in a particular patient population. As a professional body, with powers of self regulation and peer review, we need to be cognisant of the expected norm of practice.
Manche, Alexander
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Correlation of Post-Operative Hypoalbuminemia with Outcome of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery [PDF]
Background: Hypoalbuminemia may be caused by liver disease, nephrotic syndrome, burns, protein-losing entropathy, malnutrition, and metabolic stress. Alterations in albumin in metabolic stress such as cardiac surgery have been previously investigated. We
Mehdi Ghaderian +3 more
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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery [PDF]
Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of
Jonathan T. Kolstad +2 more
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Is early tracheostomy a risk factor for mediastinitis after median sternotomy?
Early tracheostomy may increase the risk of mediastinitis after median sternotomy. Patients who had postoperative tracheostomy after cardiac surgery in the period 2000-2005 were retrospectively analyzed (total: 5095 patients) to evaluate the incidence of
Losasso, Gianfranca +5 more
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Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in patients readmitted after open cardiac surgical procedures: A case series. [PDF]
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